Pre-departure tests for fully vaccinated travellers will be scrapped and the system aligned with the rest of the UK.
by merging green and amber classifications and removing more countries from the red list were announced last Friday.Now it has also been confirmed that travellers from non-red list countries who have been fully vaccinated will not be required to provide evidence of a negative test result before travelling to Scotland.However, they must have been vaccinated in a country that meets "recognised standards of certifications".
"After liaising at length with stakeholders from the aviation sector to understand the impact of adopting a different approach in Scotland, we have reluctantly concluded that, for practical reasons, alignment with the UK is the best option." "By ensuring Scotland has parity with the rest of the UK, this decision is one that will deliver much-needed consumer confidence for our passengers to start travelling again."
"The fact that Scottish holidaymakers will no longer have to take a pre-departure test in resort is a welcome step towards normality."The Scottish government has also said it would consider how "additional safeguards and surveillance of inward travel can be implemented" in a bid to guard against the importation of new variants of Covid.
said she was a "little perplexed" at the latest easing of travel restrictions when "we are still right in the middle of this pandemic".
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